Writing

Cover Letter部分

基本格式

第一段，说明文章标题以及主要作者

格式一、

Cover Letter

Dear Editor,

We hereby submit the article entitled “Wavepacket interference of two photons through a beam splitter: from temporal entanglement to wavepacket shapin” by XX,YY, and ZZ for consideration as publication in the XX

也可以简要说一下内容：

格式二、

We are excited to submit a manuscript titled “Passive Photonic Phase Gate via a Two-Level Emitter and Few Cavities” by Z. Tian et al. to be considered for publication in XX. Here we show that ···

第二段、简要介绍背景以及研究动机

大背景

  • XX plays an important role in YY，······
  • Single photons as flying qubits are ideal in many aspects

最后点一下当前的困境、未被研究的点。

  • XX has not been studied
  • XX has not been reported yet
  • XX remain unexplored/elusive
  • However, the lack of direct interaction··· poses a grand challenge for
  • there have been enormous endeavor to resolve the challenge
  • One possible way to avoid xxx is to use xxx, which is complicated and challenging to implement in practice.
  • Moreover, it has the xx problem.
  • In summary, despite of enormous efforts over the past two decades, the problem of xxx persists.

第三段、 介绍我们做的东西

先说做了什么

  • In our work, we propose a scheme to enhance
  • Here, we study the

然后强调发现在哪：

  • We find that ···

也可以有一些话强调独创性：

  • To our knowledge, no such scheme has been presented before
  • Our work represents a step towards a broad class of plasmonic devices that will enable faster, more compact optics, communication and computation.
  • The results overcome a long-standing challenge in constructing spin-controlled quantum emitters under ambient conditions, opening new possibilities for tailoring light–matter interactions and designing novel quantum optical devices.

第四段、工作的创新点以及意义

说我们工作的最关键创新点在哪：

  • we reveal xx

  • xx are obtained,

  • xx improves

然后简要说明其应用或者对相关领域的影响

  • which can be used to construct flexible tunable dielectric micro/nano cavity

  • xx is a great platform to engineer

  • our findings may have potential applications for

  • We believe that this work is important to the field of the rapidly developing quantum photonics and in general quantum information science, and will attract a broad range of researchers.

最后说我们的工作会引起哪些领域人的兴趣

  • we believe this work will be of interest to those working in the fields of nanophotonics, metamaterials, and CQED
  • our research will attract the attention of the community from quantum optics to nano-photonics.

第五段、结尾以及审稿人的介绍

Five possible reviewers are provided in the next page.

We look forward to receiving comments from you in due course.

Yours faithfully,

Prof. XX

单位

Email: xxx

第六段、 列出审稿人

Five possible reviewers:

  1. Yun Lai

Address: National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People’s Republic of China

Email: laiyun@nju.edu.cn